unité lexicale
\y.ni.te lɛk.si.kal\
The verdict
“unité lexicale” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
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- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Unité de sens et de son figée dans une langue, comme un mot, un groupe de mots, ou un proverbe, y compris toutes les formes flexionnelles. Par exemple, jeune, jeune homme et les voyages forment la ...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | unité lexicale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \y.ni.te lɛk.si.kal\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “unité lexicale” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for unité lexicale is 14 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \y.ni.te lɛk.si.kal\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Unité de sens et de son figée dans une langue, comme un mot, un groupe de mots, ou un proverbe, y compris toutes les formes flexionnelles. Par exemple, jeune, jeune homme et les voyages forment la ...".
No generated misspelling entries exist for unité lexicale in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is unité lexicale, spelled U-N-I-T-É- -L-E-X-I-C-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Unité de sens et de son figée dans une langue, comme un mot, un groupe de mots, ou un proverbe, y compris toutes les formes flexionnelles. Par exemple, jeune, jeune homme et les voyages forment la jeunesse sont des unités lexicales.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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- The one correct French spelling is U-N-I-T-É- -L-E-X-I-C-A-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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